邵宇豐2011年3月7日于LA報道
3/9/2011,從LA時間2011年3月6日下午4點30分開始至3月7日中午12點,本次OFC會議的WorksShop宣告結(jié)束。據(jù)筆者統(tǒng)計,本次OFC的WorksShop共舉辦了十四場,共涉及十四個主題,分別是:1、Next generation fibers for high-capacity transmission: radical solutions;
2、Best saturable absorber for mode-locked fiber lasers: SESAME, CNT, or Graphene?
3、Photonic integration: more technologies than applications;
4、Where can optical analog-digital conversion compete?
5、Software defined optical transceivers: what can we do with them?
6、What is next for high speed PON: evolution or revolution?
7、Beyond 100G, options, and implications for today’s networks;
8、Next generation network convergence: how will the architectures of mega data
centers and traditional telecommunication networks evolve towards a future ICT
infrastructure;
9、Exascale computing: where optics meets electronics;
10、Is Si Photonics applicable to the telecom industry;
11、Spectrally/Bitrate flexible optical network design and operation;
12、Flexible optical networking capacity at its limits?;
13、Wireline and wireless access network integration/convergence;
14、FTTX:what does X mean to you?
筆者發(fā)現(xiàn)14個workshop中,有7個涉及到光通信網(wǎng)絡(luò)的研討,主要是圍繞提高光信號傳輸速度、擴(kuò)大系統(tǒng)容量、有線連接和無線連接的融合和無源光接入等技術(shù)問題在進(jìn)行商討,這些都和目前業(yè)界關(guān)注的熱點問題相關(guān)。當(dāng)然,另外7個主題也給所有參會的科技工作者和設(shè)備商、運營商帶來一些關(guān)于光電器件未來發(fā)展的一些思考。
今天(2011年3月7日)下午1點30開始,技術(shù)會議在前期WorksShop的結(jié)束中全面鋪開,主要涉及以下19個主題:1、Fiber characterization;
2、OFDM access systems;
3、Optical amplifier;
4、Ultra long haul transmission;
5、Clock and carrier phase estimation;
6、Optical packet systems;
7、Coherent;
8、Photonic networks on chip;
9、Optical network architecture;
10、Flexible networks;
11、FTTX new technologies;
12、Quantum effects, light scattering and MPI;
13、WDM PON;14、Fiber lasers;
15、Spectral shaping for high spectral efficiencies;
16、OFDM;
17、Optical signal regeneration;
18、Emerging interconnect technologies;
19、Optical Network demos。
上述每個主題都進(jìn)行了兩小時時間的口頭報告和提問,氣氛熱烈。從明天(2011年3月7日)開始,本次會議的設(shè)備廠商展覽將揭幕,屆時筆者將跟進(jìn)做進(jìn)一步的報道。下圖是OFCNFOEC2011的日程安排,筆者攝于洛杉磯國際會議中心。